Razor-guard



(No Model.)

L. 0. ALLIN. Razor Guard.

No .24l,583. Patented May 17,1381.

v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LUGIUS O. ALLIN, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

RAZOR-GUARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,583, dated May 17, 1881.

Application filed April 18, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom tt may concern Be it known that I, LUorUs O. ALLIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Razor-Guards, of which the following is a, specification.

This invention relates to the construction of guards for razors, and the manner of securing said guards upon razorblades and adjusting them to the diminishing width of said blades by wear, the object being to provide a suitable guard for a razor which will largely diminish, if not quite prevent, the liability of persons to out themselves whenusing said instrument, and also enable an aged or infirm person to use it with a greater degree of safety than when no guard is applied thereto.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 illustrates a razor having a guard applied thereto according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of the razor-guard removed from the blade. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the back of the razor-blade.

1n the drawings, a is the razorblade, b is the guard, and c 0 are adj ustin g-screws in the back of the blade a.

I construct the razorguard 1) preferably of thin elastic metal but it may be made of hard rubber or other suitable material. Said guard I form so that it very much resembles the shape of the razor-blade in cross-section, and it is made to extend from just above the cutting-edge of the razor, on one side of the blade, up over the back thereof, and down upon the opposite side thereof, opposite to the edge of the guard on that side, so that whichever side of the blade is applied to the face in using,

only the same width of cutting-edge projects liability to slip out of place, and requiring no additional devices to secure it. The edges of the guard adjacent to the cutting-edge of the blade a are beveled back, so that said beveled portion may lie flat against the face while the razor is being used, and obviates the necessity of inclining the back of the blade too much from the face to cause the razor to properly cut.

In the back of the razor are placed two screws, 0 c, to serve the purpose of forming a higher hearing above the razor-back, upon which the guard can rest when the cuttingedge of the blade becomes so much worn as to bring it inconveniently close to the edges of the guard. Under these circumstances the screws 0 a may be screwed out of the back far enough to cause said guard, when it shall he slipped onto the blade, to rest against them, and its loweredges to be lifted a proper distance above the cutting-edge of the razor.

It is obvious that the lower edges of the guard 11 may be ground oil to correspond with the wear of the blade; but said screws 0 0 will obviate this necessity for a long time.

By the use of the guard b on a razor the cut- 2. The razor-guard 1), formed from thin elas-- tie material, extending over the back of the razor-blade and down upon each side thereof to a linejust above its cutting-edge, in combination with the screws 0 c in the back of the razor-blade, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

LUOIUS O. ALLIN. \Vitnesses: J. F. ONEIL, H. A. CHAPIN. 

